Silence moves faster when it's going backward.
Jean Cocteau

The debt of gratitude we owe our mother and father goes forward, not backward. What we owe our parents is the bill presented to us by our children.
Nancy Friday

The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you can see.
Winston Churchill

The greater the step forward in knowledge, the greater is the one taken backward in search of wisdom.
Stephen Gardiner

The historian is a prophet looking backward.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

There are two ways to extend a business. Take inventory of what you're good at and extend out from your skills. Or determine what your customers need and work backward, even if it requires learning new skills. Kindle is an example of working backward.
Jeff Bezos

There is progress whether ye are going forward or backward! The thing is to move!
Edgar Cayce

There may be some backward countries where the mass of the people are on a subsistence level and where, as an aftermath of wars or partial crop failures, the standard of living has to be drastically reduced, but this certainly is not the case in our prosperous nations.
Charles E. Wilson

Things can fall apart, or threaten to, for many reasons, and then there's got to be a leap of faith. Ultimately, when you're at the edge, you have to go forward or backward; if you go forward, you have to jump together.
Yo-Yo Ma

To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it the more fit for its prime function of looking forward.
Margaret Fairless Barber

Today's interpretations of religion are often backward and contradict the needs of civilization.
Naguib Mahfouz

Traditionally art is to create and not to revive. To revive: leave that to the historians, who are looking backward.
Josef Albers

We modern Marxists regard socialism as a historically brief transitional stage between feudalism and capitalism, necessary only in backward countries.
John McCarthy

Well, I think, I certainly used backward music in Sea of Monsters. I can't remember in the Sea of Time. I would tend to do that all the time, you know? I tended to do all sorts of weird things. Just to get effects.
George Martin

What we need in America is a renaissance. We need to go forward by going backward.
Stanley Crouch

When one makes a Revolution, one cannot mark time; one must always go forward - or go back. He who now talks about the "freedom of the press" goes backward, and halts our headlong course towards Socialism.
Vladimir Lenin

When you've seen a nude infant doing a backward somersault you know why clothing exists.
Stephen Fry

Why is it so painful to watch a person sink? Because there is something unnatural in it, for nature demands personal progress, evolution, and every backward step means wasted energy.
August Strindberg

You can't look forward and backward at the same time.
Coleman Young

You know, I try not to look back, because looking forward is so much better than looking backward.
Jim Bakker